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Quotes from The Man Who Folded Himself — David Gerrold

born 1944 United States

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Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

The Man Who Folded Himself (1973)

Life is full of little surprises.
Time travel is full of big ones.

The Man Who Folded Himself (1973)

I’ve always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.

The Man Who Folded Himself (1973)

I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.

The Man Who Folded Himself (1973)

You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.
Live well, my son.

The Man Who Folded Himself (1973)

I wish I could change it all. I wish I could.
But I can’t.
Dammit.
Now I know what it’s like to have an indelible past—one that can’t be erased and changed at will. It’s frustrating. It’s maddening. And it makes me wish I had been more careful and thoughtful.

The Man Who Folded Himself (1973)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Gerrold (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.